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The lack of radiotherapy linear accelerators (LINACs) in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs) has been recognised as a major barrier to providing quality cancer care in these regions, along with a shortfall in the number of highly…
Background: Use of a linear accelerator in ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) mode can provide a conduit for wider access to UHDR FLASH effects, sparing normal tissue, but care needs to be taken in the use of such systems to ensure errors are…
Early tests of short low group velocity and standing wave structures indicated the viability of operating X-band linacs with accelerating gradients in excess of 100 MeV/m. Conventional scaling of traveling wave traveling wave linacs with…
Radiotherapy (RT) patient scheduling is a complex operational problem. Current scheduling often relies on manual coordination and can be difficult to adapt to changing clinical demands. This study evaluated the feasibility of using a large…
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Linac accepts 750 keV H- ions from the front end and accelerates them to 400 MeV for injection into the Booster rapid cycling synchrotron. Day-to-day drifts in the beam longitudinal…
Ultra-reliability and low-latency are pivotal requirements of the new 6th generation of communication systems (xURLLC). Over the past years, to increase throughput, adaptive active antennas were introduced in advanced wireless…
High-frequency hadron-therapy linacs have been studied for the last 20 years and are now being built for dedicated proton-therapy centres. The main reason for using high-frequency linacs, in spite of the small apertures and low-duty cycle,…
Patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) undergo continuous medical imaging during treatment, making accurate lesion detection and monitoring over time critical for clinical decisions. Predicting drug response from post-treatment data…
This paper outlines the RF design of the CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) 30 GHz main linac accelerating structure and gives the resulting longitudinal and transverse mode properties. The critical requirement for multibunch operation, that…
One of the ways to satisfy the requirements of ultra-reliable low latency communication for mission critical Machine-type Communications (MTC) applications is to integrate multiple communication interfaces. In order to estimate the…
The Fermilab Linac accepts the 0.75 MeV H- ions from the front end and accelerates them to 400 MeV for injection into the Booster. Day-to-day drifts of the longitudinal trajectory in the Linac, reconstructed from phase readings of Beam…
A new delivery option for cancer centers equipped with linear accelerators fitted with multi-leaf collimators (MLC) -- i.e. centers which can perform intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) -- is rotational delivery. In rotational…
The CLIC study of a high-energy (0.5 - 5 TeV), high-luminosity (1034 - 1035 cm-2 sec-1) e+e- linear collider is presented. Beam acceleration using high frequency (30 GHz) normal-conducting structures operating at high accelerating fields…
Ultra-reliability and low-latency are two key components in 5G networks. In this letter, we investigate the problem of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) in millimeter wave (mmWave)-enabled massive multiple-input…
Magnetic resonance imaging-guided linear accelerators (MRI-Linacs) are an emerging treatment technology that enable online soft-tissue visualisation and adaptive radiotherapy. The Australian 1.0 T MRI-Linac employs a fixed, inline beamline,…
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a significant proportion of medical diagnostic equipment remains underutilized or non-functional due to a lack of timely maintenance, limited access to technical expertise, and minimal support…
The conception of High Power Linac developed in Russian accelerator centres is based on the use of independently phased SC resonators with quadrupole lenses between them. The type and parameters of the resonators as well as focusing…
Transceiver hardware impairments (e.g., phase noise, in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance, amplifier non-linearities, and quantization errors) have obvious degradation effects on the performance of wireless communications. While prior…
Feasibility of using unlicensed spectrum for ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is still a question for beyond 5G wireless networks. Low latency access to the channel and efficiently sharing spectrum among the multiple users…
In designing linear accelerator structures for multi-bunch applications we are often interested in estimating the effect of relatively weak multi-bunch beam break-up (BBU), due to the somewhat complicated wakefields of detuned structures.…